Leadership Edge

The Invisible Tax Killing Your Projects

📰 Embedding knowledge sharing into daily workflows, surfacing hidden expertise at the moment of need, reducing friction with lightweight systems, cultivating psychological safety, and leading KM 3.0 as a firm-wide operating system.

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This newsletter provide key insights for forward-thinking leaders seeking innovation in AEC who are short on time, offering the context of each conversation without the need to listen to the full episode. It’s designed to keep you updated, spark your interest, and encourage you to tune in if the ideas resonate.

Is your firm’s best knowledge still trapped in inboxes and heads?

Summary

In episode 202, I spoke with Katie Robinson of LS3P and Christopher Parsons of Knowledge Architecture about how the definition and execution of knowledge management (KM) is evolving across AEC. We discussed why KM is not just the responsibility of a siloed department, but instead something everyone from designers to executives should own.

We covered what “KM 3.0” really means, why culture eats strategy (again), and how the best firms are designing systems that enable their people to contribute, consume, and connect knowledge continuously without adding friction.

“I was pulling out my hair, trying to find project data like most firms do.” – Katie Robinson

Perhaps you can you relate.

Key Takeaways

Here are my top takeaways from the podcast episode. Then we'll get into the deeper analysis.

The Question Every AEC Leader Should Be Asking Today

📰 Redefining leadership through the “Give to Get” framework: why great leaders ask what life their team members want to build, and help them get there. Plus, the cost of replacing talent vs. retaining it, and how generational shifts are reshaping AEC firms.

202: ‘Knowledge Management is Everyone‘s Job’, with Katie Robinson and Christopher Parsons

A conversation with Katie Robinson and Christopher Parsons exploring LS3P's knowledge management evolution, from enhancing proposal writing to impactful strategies like the Data Manager program and Expert Hours initiative, fostering collaboration and effective knowledge sharing across the firm.

Align or Die: AEC’s Strategy Crisis

📰 Leadership Edge 200: Building authentic strategy around a simple framework. Aligning tools, culture, and metrics to avoid digital transformation failure, overcome AI hype, and drive meaningful change in your AEC firm.

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